TERMINATED TENANCY

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29915, 31 August 1962, Page 6

TERMINATED TENANCY

U Thant To Shift

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) MEW YORK, August 29.

The United Nations Secretary-General. U Thant, whose New York landlord recently filed a termination of tenancy notice with the Rent Administration, is to move out of his 12,600-dol!ar-a-year Manhattan flat and into an 11-room house in suburban Riverdale.

An informed source said the Secretary-General wws expected to move into the new quarters next month. Mr Dino Cerutti, the lawyer for his present landlord, Mr William Wholey, stated that he had asked for termination of the existing tenancy by September 14. “If they are not out, we shall start summary proceedings to dispossess them.” Mr Cerutti said. U Thant said in a statement here on August 16 that Mr Wholey’s charge that he had been negligent in the flat was “absurd.”

In papers filed in the State Supreme Court, Mr Wholey charged that U Thant entertained “great numbers of guests, at which functions a great amount of liquor, food and tobacco was dropped on said property,” and that “upwards of 20 persons” were permitted to sleep on the floor and elsewhere on the premises.

The new house, on five acres of land, has a swnmming pool and tennis court and is within easy commuting distance of the United Nations headquarters, in an area where several diplomats live